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The 2012 Convocation honored one of the largest graduating classes in Rockefeller history with 40 Ph.Ds awarded, bringing the total number of Rockefeller alumni to 1,110. Celebrations included an evening reception for the graduates and their families, a luncheon, the traditional cap-and-gown procession across campus, a formal ceremony in Caspary Auditorium during which graduates were presented with personal remarks from their mentors and a campus-wide celebration on the Peggy Rockefeller Plaza.

Members of the class of 2012 — 20 men and 20 women — come from fourteen countries: Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Nepal, Singapore, United Kingdom and the United States. Of the 35 students in the Ph.D. program, 22 will do postdocs, three will teach, three will work in law firms, two in consulting firms, two in industry and three are undecided. The five participants in the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. program will return to medical school to finish their medical degrees.